Best-sellers for week of Aug. 20
Here are the week's best-sellers from Publishers Weekly. As always, you can find reviews of many of these books here at The Book Nook.
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. "South of Broad" by Pat Conroy (Nan A. Talese)
2. "Smash Cut" by Sandra Brown (Simon & Schuster)
3. "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam/Amy Einhorn)
4. "That Old Cape Magic: A Novel" by Richard Russo (Knopf)
5. "The Girl Who Played With Fire" by Stieg Larsson (Knopf)
6. "The Eleventh Victim" by Nancy Grace (Hyperion)
7. "Best Friends Forever" by Jennifer Weiner (Atria)
8. "The Magicians: a Novel" by Lev Grossman (Viking)
9. "Swimsuit" by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown)
10. "Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel" by Sherrilyn Kenyon, (St. Martin's)
11. "The Defector" by Daniel Silva (Putnam
12. "Inherent Vice" by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin)
13. "Dead and Gone" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
14. "Blindman s Bluff: A Decker and Lazarus Novel" by Faye Kellerman (Morrow)
15. "Intervention" by Robin Cook (Putnam)
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. "Culture of Corruption: Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies" by Michelle Malkin (Regnery Publishing)
2. "Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume I" by Julia Child, Simone Beck, Louisette Bertholle (Knopf)
3. "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment" by Steve Harvey (Amistad)
4. "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown)
5. "In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect" by Ronald Kessler (Crown)
6. "Catastrophe" by Dick Morris, Eileen McGann (Harper)
7. "Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto" by Mark R. Levin (Threshold Editions)
8. "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion)
9. "Master Your Metabolism: The 3 Diet Secrets to Naturally Balancing Your Hormones for a Hot and Healthy Body!" by Jillian Michaels and Mariska van Aalst (Crown)
10. "How Did That Happen?: Holding People Accountable for Results the Positive, Principled Way" by Roger Connors and Tom Smith (Portfolio)
11. "Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America" by Douglas Brinkley (Harper)
12. "In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic" by David Wessel (Crown Business)
13. "Michael Jackson: The Magic, The Madness, The Whole Story, 1958-2009" by J. Randy Taraborrelli (Grand Central)
14. "My Journey with Farrah: A Story of Life, Love, and Friendship" by Alana Stewart (Morrow)
15. "The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election" by Dan Balz, Haynes Johnson (Viking)
MASS MARKET PAPERBACKS
1. "The Quickie" by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge (Vision)
2. "Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Dead and Alive" by Dean Koontz (Bantam)
3. "Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
4. "From Dead to Worse" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
5. "Club Dead" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
6. "Smoke Screen" by Sandra Brown (Pocket)
7. "My Life in France" by Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme (Anchor)
8. "The Assassin" by Stephen Coonts (St. Martin s)
9. "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult (Pocket)
10. "Chosen to Die" by Lisa Jackson (Zebra)
11. "Dead to the World" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
12. "Dead as a Doornail" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
13. "Living Dead in Dallas" by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
14. "Mastered by Love" by Stephanie Laurens (Avon)
15. "Storm of Visions: the Chosen Ones" by Christina Dodd (Signet)
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. "The Time Traveler's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger (Mariner Books)
2. "Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine" by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions)
3. "The Shack" by William P. Young (Windblown Media)
4. "The Weight of Silence" by Heather Gudenkauf (Mira)
5. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson (Vintage)
6. "Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously" by Julie Powell (Back Bay Books)
7. "Olive Kitteredge" by Elizabeth Strout (Random House Trade Paperbacks)
8. "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (Dial)
9. "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" by Jane Austin and Seth Grahame-Smith (Quirk Books)
10. "The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel" by Garth Stein (Harper)
11. "The Hour I First Believed" by Wally Lamb (Harper)
12. "My Life in France" by Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme, (Anchor)
13. "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin (Penguin)
14. "The Lucky One" by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing)
15. "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power" by Jeff Sharlet (Harper Perennial)
